Regular Expression Denial Of Service in uri-js

Description

Affected versions of uri-js is susceptible to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when user input is sent to the .parse() method.

Recommendation

Update the uri-js package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 3.0.0
• Patched version(s): 3.0.0

References

• GHSA-333w-rxj3-f55r
• www.npmjs.com
• nodesecurity.io
• CVE-2017-16021
• CWE-1333
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Regular Expression Denial of Service in string package - CVE-2017-16116
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in tough-cookie - CVE-2017-15010
• parse-uri Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) - CVE-2024-36751
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in timespan - CVE-2017-16115

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Tags:

npm

uri-js